(A) Chief of Police’s authority. The Chief of Police, at the direction of the Mayor, is hereby authorized and directed to promulgate rules and regulations for on-street parking and for off-street parking in city-owned lots. Further, he or she shall issue orders for signage and for painting of lines denoting regulations for parking and for no parking. Rules, regulations and directions shall be in accordance with state law and the Federal Manual for Uniform Traffic-Control Devices (MUTCD).
(B) Parking meters and other parking spaces. The Chief of Police, at the direction of the Mayor, is directed to cause parking meters to be installed and parking spaces, along with where parking is not permitted, to be designated upon such streets and in off-street areas of the city as he or she shall select. From time to time, he or she may add to, change or abandon parking meters and areas. In making changes to parking designations, he or she shall be guided and governed by location, amount of traffic, the demand for parking spaces, the congestion of traffic, the use of the street and other pertinent conditions and demands.
(C) Maintenance. The Chief of Police, at the direction of the Mayor, shall maintain parking meters in good workable condition. He or she further is authorized to enter into contracts for such parts and maintenance of parking meters as may be necessary to maintain the same in good operating condition and to pay for such parts and maintenance from the General Fund with advice and guidance from the city’s Finance Director. All receipts, funds and revenues from the operation of the parking meters shall be deposited into the city’s General Fund.
(D) Installation and operation. Parking meters shall be placed immediately adjacent to the individual parking spaces. Each parking meter shall be placed or set in such a manner as to show or display a signal that the parking space adjacent to such meter is or is not legally in use. Each parking meter shall be installed and set to display, upon the deposit of a $0.25 coin of the United States, a signal indicating legal parking for a period of time allowed for such respective amount, and shall continue to operate from the time allotted for such respective coin or coins. Each meter also shall be so arranged that, upon the expiration of the allotted time, it will signal that the lawful parking period has expired.
(E) Parking spaces. The Chief of Police shall have lines or markings painted or placed adjacent to each parking meter for the purpose of designating the parking space for which the meter is to be used, and each vehicle parked alongside of or next to any parking meter shall park within the lines or markings so established.
(F) Parking position. When a parking space is parallel with the adjacent curb or sidewalk, any vehicle parked in such parking space shall be parked so that the foremost part of such vehicle shall be alongside of and next to the parking meter. When a parking space is diagonal to the curb or sidewalk, any vehicle parked in such parking space shall be parked with the foremost part of such vehicle directed at and next to such meter.
(G) Operation of meter. When any vehicle enters a metered parking space, the operator of said vehicle shall immediately deposit in such parking meter a $0.25 or coins of the United States, and at once shall put the meter into operation; the parking space may then be lawfully occupied by the vehicle during the period of time which has been prescribed for the amount so deposited. If the vehicle remains parked in any such parking space beyond the parking time limit allotted for the coin or coins inserted in the meter, the parking meter shall display a sign or signal showing illegal parking, and in that event such vehicle shall be considered as parked overtime and beyond the period of legal parking time and in violation of this section.
(H) Parking time. The insertion of coins of the United States as herein provided into any parking meter shall allow the occupancy by a vehicle of the parking space in conjunction therewith up to the limit of parking time which has been prescribed for the part of the street in which parking space is located and the parking meter shall be so set or adjusted that it shall indicate the elapsing of said time.
(I) Disposition of receipts. The coins to be deposited in parking meters are levied and assessed as fees to cover the cost of the supervision, inspections, installation, operation, maintenance, control and use of the parking meters and also the cost of supervising and regulating the parking of vehicles in the parking meter zones created hereby.
(J) Parking beyond metered time period. It shall be unlawful for any person or operator to cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle to be parked overtime or beyond the period for which the coin or coins he or she has inserted in the parking meter entitles the vehicle to occupy said parking space. It shall be unlawful for any person or operator to permit a vehicle to remain in any parking space adjacent to any parking meter while the meter is displaying a signal indicating that the vehicle occupying parking space has already been parked beyond the period for which the coin inserted in the meter entitled it to remain in the parking space.
(K) Ticketing violations. Any law enforcement officer of the city’s Police Department shall be authorized to affix to vehicles parked n violation of any of the provisions of this section a “parking violation notice” that such vehicle has been so illegally parked and instruct the operator to report to the Police Department in regard to such violation. Each such person may, within five business days of the time when such notice was attached to such vehicle, pay as the penalty for and in full satisfaction of such violation the sum which is printed on the parking violation notice (parking ticket). The penalty for non-payment after five business days shall be at a rate of double the applicable rate for each violation as indicated on the face of the “parking violation notice” affixed to the vehicle by a law enforcement officer. Five business days shall be defined as Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., excluding legal holidays.
(L) Hours of operation. The parking meters shall control parking only between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., on Mondays through Fridays, except legal holidays. When parking meters are not controlling parking as this section provides, vehicles may be parked without inserting any coin or coins in the meter, but the parking line adjacent to the meters shall be adhered to in such parking in the same manner as is required during other times.
(M) Off-street parking. No person shall park a vehicle adjacent to any parking meter or in any gated lot in any of the off-street municipal parking lots at any time for a period in excess of the time provided via the posted signage.
(N) Parking in designated spaces. When parking meters are controlling parking in any lot, block or street, it shall be illegal to park except at a meter. When there are no meters, but parking spaces are denoted by lines and/or signage, it shall be illegal to park, except as so specified.
(O) Penalty. It shall be illegal to park beyond the time limit indicated on the dial of each parking meter or by the signage. Police officers are authorized to mark tires of any vehicle parked at a meter or in a designated space. Any vehicle found to be over the time limit at that meter or in the space after having been so marked shall be issued a ticket. The amount of the fee to be assessed for the various violations hereunder shall be as set forth on the parking violation notice.
(1960 Code, § 52.801) (Ord. 2928, passed 1-20-1970; Ord. 7483, passed 4-18-2011) Penalty, see § 74.99